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Re: Social Security question/ help please if you know
I retired at 62 and started drawing ss because: #1 - if I had had to stay at my job one.more.day I'd probably be wearing *orange* shortly afterward....lol. It was worth it to me to put that place behind me before I went postal and threw my computer at the boss. #2 - I am a widow and I was entitled to what my late husband's ss would have been at his age, which would have been 64, so that added a few dollars to what I would normally be getting at 62. MY ss entitlement just sat there and "percolated" until I reached full age at 66, at which time I got more than what I was getting on his. #3 (and what REALLY swayed me) - I met a great guy who was retired and wanted to go traveling and he sure as tootin' didn't want to sit home and watch TV until I turned 65, so I retired, sold my house, we bought a fiver and we've been part-time gypsies for five years now. We come back to Florida to his house when things start cooling down...temperature, that is.... My father and husband both died at relatively early ages and didn't get to do the things they planned for retirement. I have never regretted taking social security early so that I could retire early and enjoy life while I still have good health. Besides, I've never seen a Brink's Armored Car following a hearse, have you?384Views0likes0CommentsRe: Camping in Cody, WY
We used Cody as a home base to do Yellowstone three years ago. It's about 50 miles to the gate and another 50 to Old Faithful. We did three trips into Yellowstone while we were there. Yes, it was a lot of driving but there was so much to see along the way. We love driving. Also, we loved the Buffalo Bill Museum. The Night Rodeo was fun. There was also a nightly free wild-west-type show in front of the Irma Hotel. We also took a trip to Thermopolis to swim in the hot spring pool and sightsee. It's about 1 1/2 hour drive each way. Another spectacular drive is to take 120 to 308, take 308 over to Red Lodge and then south on 212 (Beartooth Hwy, I think it's called) to the north entrance of the park. There are a lot of other things to do. You won't get bored.453Views0likes0CommentsRe: Length, wheelbase, state RV parks.
We have a 38' fifth wheel and we've found we can get into just about anyplace, as long as we can inch back and forth about a hundred times and can put up with the 8 other campers who wander over and yell "CUT TO THE RIGHT!....TO THE RIGHT!!.....TO THE RIGHT!!!.....CUT TO THE LEFT..NO, CUT TO THE RIGHT!!!!..BACK UP TWO FEET....NOW PULL FORWARD.....ad nauseum" until they get bored and go back to their sites.474Views0likes0CommentsRe: GPS, Atlas, Mapquest and More....
I'm pretty obsessive, so I use MapQuest/Google Maps, a map, AND the GPS. Then I end up calling the campground and asking them the best route off the highway to the park. We got tired of following the GPS/MapQuest/Map and finding a road closed "today" for repair and having to drag a large 5er on a detour through a neighborhood or "downtown". The park people can tell me "oh, don't take 7th street because it's torn up.....get off at exit 301 and follow....etc, etc". We don't like surprises....336Views0likes0CommentsRe: Campground recommendations for Cheyenne and Cody, WY
Another vote for Ponderosa in Cody. The sites are small but doable for our 38' fiver. Best is that it's in walking distance to almost everything. There's a beautiful lower section that is for tent camping, but you can walk down and see deer and a lovely creek. Good store and the people at the office are friendly and knowledgeable.398Views0likes0CommentsRe: Darn Thief
My car was stolen three years ago. Apparently, I had left a door unlocked and while "tossing" the car, the thief must have found a spare key in the console under the years' collection of detritus that I had collected, so no damage was done to the ignition. It was found two days later, but had been washed, waxed, and detailed. And I mean DETAILED. Rims and tires had been cleaned, trunk had been vacuumed, windows had been washed inside and out. Console had been cleaned out. The key was in the ignition. Our assumption was that the theft had "sold" the car to someone else and had dropped it off to be picked up. I can only hope that when the "buyer" didn't get the car, he went looking for the thief.....358Views0likes0CommentsRe: Most common campground complaints?
I notice the folks responding from the West seem to have less complaints. Camping in the East must be a different critter than the West. I think a lot of that is the tendency of a lot of East Coast campgrounds to really pack in the campers. More wear-and-tear on the restrooms, more screaming kids in the pool, more neighbor's firepit being too close to your rig, barking dogs are closer, more people cutting through your site, ad nauseum. Scientific experiments have proved that if there are too many ants in the hill or too many bees in the hive, problems occur. Same thing with a crowded rv park. Just my humble opinion....187Views0likes0Comments
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